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House Sequester Deal: GOP Insists On No Revenue Increases

Democrats and Republicans appeared no closer to any sort of agreement on sequestration on Sunday, with the former insisting that any upcoming deal include an increase in revenue, and the latter insisting on spending cuts alone. One crack in party unity, however, appeared when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appeared open to possibly raising revenue.

"The president accepted no spending cuts back in the fiscal cliff deal 45 days ago. So you get no spending cuts back then, then you

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Cantor can say what he wants but he is only tying the noose around his neck when everybody but the TEAbaggers and their owner Norquist oppose him.

Could it be that the GOP has decided to go full out, double down on the teabagger agenda, knowing full well that the American voter has soured on that agenda? The end motivation being to purge the Republican Party of teabaggers and the Norquist thumbscrew? It could be like a poison pill they are taking to discredit the tea movement, to take the GOP back from the fringe to the mainstream.

Really though, I don't think they smart enough to come up with that type of plan. It's an interesting concept though.

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Ned you are wrong. The repubs have not compromised 1 bit. The dems have compromised endlessly on the budget deal. They have offered to cut spending all the time, their only request is a slight tax increase on 1% of Americans that wont pay their fair share.

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This is mathematically false. Cutting 5% of something that is 25% of your budget does more than cutting 50% of something that is 2% of your budget. If you spend less than the remaining .0025% you do indeed make headway.

This is why I and people like me were rolling our eyes at ll the right-wing pundits when they were bitching about NPR while refusing to even look at multi-billion dollar expenses elsewhere (AKA the military).